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CHICAGO -- Supervalu Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., took a large step into the slowly evolving marketplace for irradiated foods when it announced plans to begin stocking its shelves with unspecified products by early July, 2000.Speaking at the annual convention here of the Food Marketing Institute, Washington, Dave Wiemer, corporate director of quality assurance, said the introduction will be accompanied

CHICAGO -- Supervalu Inc., Minneapolis, Minn., took a large step into the slowly evolving marketplace for irradiated foods when it announced plans to begin stocking its shelves with unspecified products by early July, 2000.

Speaking at the annual convention here of the Food Marketing Institute, Washington, Dave Wiemer, corporate director of quality assurance, said the introduction will be accompanied by an intensive, multifaceted consumer-education campaign about the various pros and